Word: craning
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proposal was unveiled by Joseph D. Malone '78, who may find himself next fall running against incumbent state Treasurer Robert Q. Crane, who has held the office since 1964. Malone and radio talk show host Jerry Williams were joined by Republicans and other supporters below the Paul Revere statue in Boston's North End for a news conference announcing the proposal...
Although she discusses the growing rift during the years 1972-73 between the CCA and one of its original founders, Councillor Edward A. Crane '38, Ackermann makes no mention of the final day of the 1973 council session, when Crane and another CCA councillor broke ranks and tried to repeal the city's rent control ordinance...
...whole, "You the Mayor?" works well. It provides splendid portraits of city officials--particularly the giant Ed Crane and the often preposterous Al Vellucci, the independent Independent. It explains clearly and eloquently the problems of being an elected official in a city like Cambridge, where councillors have "accountability without authority...
...Tambov train station, spraying mud and loose gravel from the potholed roadway. The landmarks were typical of a rural Russian administrative center. A tank seemed poised to topple off the memorial honoring the heroism of local citizens in the Great Fatherland War, as World War II is known. A crane loomed above the construction site of the new Communist Party headquarters, just across from an imposing statue of Lenin thrusting his arm into the future. Political posters and slogans of a type that had all but vanished from Moscow could be seen on billboards and atop apartment houses...
...were playing with a child's Erector Set, the crane operator maneuvers a ladle filled with 230 tons of molten iron toward a giant furnace and pours into its maw a glowing glob of 3000 degrees F metal. After 45 minutes in the oxygen-fired furnace, the iron turns into liquid steel, which a computer-controlled casting machine quickly forms into slabs 40 ft. long. Presto! In just 3.8 worker-hours, one-third less than the U.S. industry's average, this modern plant has produced a ton of steel. It is one of the most efficient mills in the world...